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	Jailed ayatollah asks Pope to help free him

Efrain Alvarado

9-27-2008 4:43 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d829e352-c4be-42f3-a37d-e9564e7a9b74/2A11B5CC-E8B4-4EB6-BB95-820CC8F5A433/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/09/jailed-ayatollah-asks-pope-to-help-free.html" href="http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/09/jailed-ayatollah-asks-pope-to-help-free.html" style="font-size: 11px;">clericalwhispers.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/09/jailed-ayatollah-asks-pope-to-help-free.html"><DIV>
<A href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WPjZST8SC40/SN06HXEGaQI/AAAAAAAAXn8/xoIoqZ_8uk8/s1600-h/bg_logo.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250416638708574466" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WPjZST8SC40/SN06HXEGaQI/AAAAAAAAXn8/xoIoqZ_8uk8/s400/bg_logo.jpg" /></A>Iran's jailed Ayatollah Sayyid Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi has written a letter to Pope Benedict XVI and other religious leaders asking them to help secure his release.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/09/jailed-ayatollah-asks-pope-to-help-free.html"><DIV>The ayatollah asked the pontiff to "...defend the divine credibility and spiritual sacredness" by asking the Iranian authorities to respect human rights.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/09/jailed-ayatollah-asks-pope-to-help-free.html"><DIV>The letter was reportedly smuggled out of jail and distributed by the ayatollah's representative in Europe.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/09/jailed-ayatollah-asks-pope-to-help-free.html"><DIV>Addressing the Muslim leaders, Kazemeini says that "Political Islam is erasing the word of God and his prophet, Mohammed", while he asks rabbis to "make the world hear the cry of the Muslims in Iran, in the name of the same God that (we) jointly worship."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/09/jailed-ayatollah-asks-pope-to-help-free.html"><DIV>Kazemeini has been jailed since October 2006 with a group of his supporters. They have been accused of anti-constitutional activities and heresy.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/09/jailed-ayatollah-asks-pope-to-help-free.html"> He is known to oppose political Islam and the presence of the mullahs and ayatollahs in government and in</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2A11B5CC-E8B4-4EB6-BB95-820CC8F5A433/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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